In The Uncertainties of Knowledge, Immanuel Wallerstein extends his work
over the last decade of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current
intellectual thought. Arguing that the current disciplinary divisions of
academia - divisions produced by a previous crisis of knowledge - has
left us trapped in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty that
can help us explain the social world, Wallerstein offers us a new way of
imagining the social sciences, one which allows for uncertainties and
for methods of studying our world and its historical place.